I’m not getting my AS number tattooed on my wrist for a “little” i in Internet. Lol.
-Ben > On Dec 25, 2019, at 10:34 AM, Royce Williams <ro...@techsolvency.com> wrote: > > >> On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 1:15 AM william manning <chinese.apri...@gmail.com> >> wrote: > >> https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-189.pdf > > I can't speak to the technical content, but this put a curdle in my morning > coffee: > > "... that comprise the internet [sic]" . > > Et tu, NIST? > > I will die on this "capital "I" in *the* Internet" hill. ;) > > (And no, I don't care what the AP Stylebook decided to pull out of thin air, > with no understanding of how the Internet works or what it means; the > argument that "there are many possible internets" is specious, because that's > not what "the Internet" means; to the extent that various other "internets" > get balkanized out of the Internet, to the extent that they interconnect, > *that* will always and forever be "the Internet".) > > What's next - geology textbooks calling our single, unique planet "the earth" > ? (Which brings to mind a great illustration of why "the Internet" matters: > if, by some happenstance of etymology, we referred to our planet solely as > "the Planet", then there could be many other planets, but only one Planet.) > > (And regardless of what you call it ... thanks to each of you for operating > your piece of it!) > > Royce
